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Edson Richter <edsonrichter@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I would like to know if there is any plan to implement compressed fields 
> (just a "flag" in the field definition, like "not null") at database 
> side (these fields are and will never be indexed neither used for search).

Any field value over a couple kilobytes is compressed automatically;
this has been true for more than a dozen years.  You can turn that
off if you want, but it's done by default.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/storage-toast.html

			regards, tom lane


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